Switchable SAW Resonators and Ladder Filters Composed of Interdigitated Combs.

This work presents the development of switchable surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonators fabricated on a LiNbO3 substrate, which uses the electrical Bragg bandgap concept to control the resonance frequency. The modification of the electrical condition of electrode arrays shifts their bandgap center frequency, which in turn changes the effective cavity length and resonance frequency of the resonator. This method uses the electrodes already present in SAW devices, thus reducing the complexity of potentially tunable SAW components.

Scattering from a finite ribbed plate with attached oscillators.

Double layer structures consisting of stainless steel and polymer rods are designed to blur and attenuate Bragg and Bloch-Floquet scattering from a periodically ribbed plate in a given frequency bandwidth. These structures can be considered as ribbed plate-spring-mass systems, the resonance frequencies of which are obtained from random and circular permutations of five basic oscillators. Analytical and finite element methods are used to find their parameters and tank tests have been carried out to ensure the accuracy of the numerical results and validate the relevance of such a model.

Electrical Evidence of the Tunable Electrical Bragg Bandgaps in Piezoelectric Plates.

A piezoelectric plate, poled along its thickness and supporting on its top and bottom surfaces a periodic grating of electrodes, is considered. An analytical model allowing band structure calculation is derived for the first symmetrical mode propagating along the length of the plate. Analytical results show that an electrical Bragg (EB) bandgap can be observed for this mode, depending on the electrical boundary conditions applied on the electrodes.

Tunable phononic crystals based on piezoelectric composites with 1-3 connectivity.

Phononic crystals made of piezoelectric composites with 1-3 connectivity are studied theoretically and experimentally. It is shown that they present Bragg band gaps that depend on the periodic electrical boundary conditions. These structures have improved properties compared to phononic crystals composed of bulk piezoelectric elements, especially the existence of larger band gaps and the fact that they do not require severe constraints on their aspect ratios.

Control of elastic wave propagation in one-dimensional piezomagnetic phononic crystals.

Two ways of controlling the acoustic waves propagation by external inductance or capacitance in a one-dimensional (1-D) piezomagnetic phononic crystal are investigated. The structure is made of identical bars, constituted of a piezomagnetic material, surrounded by a coil and connected to an external impedance. A model of propagation of longitudinal elastic waves through the periodic structure is developed and the dispersion equation is obtained.